CNN’s Fred Pleitgen speaks with Daniel Caspary, a member of the European Parliament and CDU/CSU group chair, on exit polls ...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to return to power with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, has again ruled out cooperating with ...

The 69-year-old corporate lawyer and investment banker is now set to become Germany’s next chancellor, replacing the ...

Friedrich Merz poised to become next chancellor after exit polls predict victory for his centre-Right Christian Democratic ...

That paves the way for their candidate, Friedrich Merz (pictured), to take over from Olaf Scholz as chancellor after ...

Millions of Germans are deciding the next chancellor in snap elections Sunday with the center-right Christian Democratic ...

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is celebrating what it calls a "historic" victory in the national ...

With exit polls broadly in line with what was expected by markets, investors’ attention will now turn to how quickly Merz can ...

BERLIN - Germany's opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be ...

At the start of November last year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner - the leader of one of ...